A new inter partes review, IPR2026-00469, was filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on September 3, 2026, opening what could become an important dispute for patent owners, petitioners, and portfolio managers watching PTAB filing trends. The proceeding is captioned EverWave Inc., indicating that EverWave is central to the challenged patent dispute.

At this early stage,…
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The Justice Department has announced a proposed resolution with KKR that would impose a record $250 million civil penalty over alleged repeated violations of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act’s premerger notification rules. According to the DOJ’s announcement, KKR & Co. GP LLC allegedly failed across at least 16 transactions to provide complete and accurate filings, including by withholding, altering, or omitting required…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rescinding its investment-adviser “pay-to-play” rule, a long-standing restriction that bars advisers from receiving compensation for advisory services from certain government clients for two years after making covered political contributions. If adopted, the change would mark a significant shift in how the agency regulates the intersection of campaign activity and public-sector investment business.

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A federal judge in Virginia has handed Google a partial win in one of the Justice Department’s most closely watched monopolization cases, declining to order the sale of key pieces of the company’s ad-tech stack while still requiring operational changes aimed at curbing anticompetitive conduct. The ruling keeps intact Google’s integrated ownership of its publisher ad server and ad exchange…
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The Fourth Circuit’s September 1, 2026 disposition in Nonprecedential Opinion, No. 26-4129, is designated nonprecedential, which immediately matters for how lawyers should read and use it. Even without binding effect, unpublished appellate opinions can offer a useful window into how a panel is applying familiar standards of review, handling procedural defects, and evaluating the arguments that do—or do not—gain…
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A federal judge in New York is pressing the U.S. Department of Justice to do more than simply say it wants out. In the Gautam Adani-related prosecution, the court declined to automatically approve the government’s request to dismiss remaining charges, signaling that prosecutors must provide a clearer factual basis before the case can be pared back.

That procedural moment is…
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Several major legal developments this week underscore how quickly risk can shift across litigation, regulation, and criminal enforcement. For legal professionals, the significance is less about any single headline than the broader pattern: courts, prosecutors, and policymakers continue to drive fast-moving changes that can affect case strategy, disclosure obligations, compliance controls, and enterprise exposure.

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Continue Reading Sept. 5 Legal Landscape: The Cases and Crackdowns Shaping Risk This Week

Saturday’s legal landscape reflects a familiar but important convergence: active courts, aggressive regulators, and policy shifts with immediate downstream effects for companies and litigators. While the underlying matters span different practice areas, the common thread is practical risk. For legal departments and outside counsel, these developments are less about headlines and more about signal—where enforcement is heading, what theories are…
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit filed a nonprecedential opinion in No. 25-7002 on August 31, 2026. Because the disposition is expressly nonprecedential, its practical importance lies less in creating binding circuit law and more in how it illustrates the court’s application of settled appellate principles to the facts of the case.

For practitioners, the key takeaway…
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The U.S. Supreme Court has granted emergency relief to Republican campaign committees in a dispute over political advertising rates, allowing them to pursue lower-cost broadcast time ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The ruling removes a significant practical obstacle for national party committees seeking to take advantage of advertising rates that can dramatically affect campaign budgets in the final stretch…
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